--- title: “Who hath dared to wound thee?” cried the Giant; “tell me, that I ma… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Who hath dared to wound thee?” cried the Giant; “tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/134/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/) / 134 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 134 “Who hath dared to wound thee?” cried the Giant; “tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.” **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** dare, wound, cry, tell, take, slay · **To what, where:** thee, Giant, me, big sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg902:3:134 # text = “Who hath dared to wound thee?” cried the Giant; “tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 3 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 dared dare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 wound wound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 slay slay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dare** *in a quote* | present · passive | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **wound** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | thee | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | | the Giant | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | may | I | my big sword | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 6 | **slay** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | Giant | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/135/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/)